Recycle gardening

Even if I try to keep things fresh, I sometimes find vegetables which are rotten or moldy in my kitchen.
They become compost but I still feel bad.

Last year, we found moldy garlic and  instead of throwing into a compost bin, planted it in a pot.
We didn't know how to grow garlic or even if it would ever grow, so watered occasionally and just waited.
It started to sprout in spring.
After the plant died down, JC dug out the garlic last week.

It was small, but pungent, real garlic!

We have other recycle vegetable plants in our garden.
I never planted tomato. Some of the tomatoes fall on the ground, and grow back again by themselves every year.

This is potato.
It started to grow in a compost bin, so I replanted to the garden.
This happens often, and they produce small potatoes in autumn.

I planted pumpkin seeds, too.
I didn't know if it was possible to grow pumpkin by just sowing seeds on the ground, but they sprouted and it looked promising; however, one day some unknown bugs annihilated them (therefore I still don't know if I can grow pumpkin this way).

I should be able to produce better result if I google "how to grow" but I kind of like this trial and error gardening. I can afford to make mistakes: this is the good thing about gardening with the recycled stuff.

It's fun to plan meticulously and plant store-bought seedlings, but recycle gardening offers a different kind of pleasure even if it sometimes comes with failure and inferior crops.